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Friday, 29 January 2016

I made two purses from a 8"swatch of faux suede Spoonflower fabric, one of my designs. The pictures show both sides of each. I wanted a small purse to keep a credit card and a bit of loose change in but unfortunately these are a little too small. The credit card would fit in them, the problem is getting it in!

Monday, 18 January 2016

I had a piece of fabric, one of my designs ..but wondered what to do with it. Then I thought it may be interesting to alter a sweatshirt with it and this is the result. I wonder what it will wash like....because it was hand stitched on. I had to shorten the shirt too because the fabric was not quite long enough.

Wednesday, 6 January 2016

Well to start with I went down to London as my daughter gave birth to my first grandchild, a lovely little boy. It was a difficult birth and baby was in IC for a while but I'm happy to say they are both at home now and doing very well.

Then when I got back home my computer worked once then died so that had to be sorted.

It's probably a bit late to post pictures of some hand made Christmas lanterns so I'm showing the last pages of the vintage collage book. The top one of vintage adverts shows it is a man's world where women are only good for cooking and cleaning!

The adverts on this page are quite shocking.... beer for a mother and baby as a pick me up, a small child with a revolver [although it does say they are not toys], and a baby drinking 7up,